Monday, April 28, 2014

I cut them in 1/2" wide stripes, arranged accordingly the colors and jointed them with the small pieces of tape.

After that, I put this sheet between 2 plywood pieces (1/6") and cut it in 1/2" wide stripes again

I arranged the new cut stripes trying to build a chessboard design

It was a bit challenging to take the tape off, because the wood was so fragile and as you see, I broke some tiles

However, I was pretty satisfied with the result when the floor was put together

More than that, since this sheet was in between 2 plywood pieces, now I have stripes to finish the floor for some other project, may be for my castle!

but let's go back to the floor. Since the house was put already together, it was not very comfortable for me to put a stripe after stripe straight on the floor in the room. I covered the stripes with the tape again, glued it to the thin board with the other side (without a tape), took the tape of, sanded the whole surface, finished it and the floor was ready to be transferred to the room.

Friday, April 25, 2014

I didn't make you wait long, did I? Don't you have a desire just step on it with your mini bare feet? It feels so fluffy in touch...

It was really a fun working on this colorful Punchneedle rug "Spring Bunny". It took me a couple of hours during 3 days to finish it. Can't compare with petit point in miniature, however the scale that Punchneedle rugs in miniature come in is still under a question for me.

That is why I didn't apply any background on the back side of the rug.

The Springtime Bunny punchneedle rug is shaved and ready. It measures a little bit more than 2" x 3".

I shaved the rug. I like this technique, however I didn't take the pictures of the process.

I tried to make close-up pictures of the shaved pile...

Shaving doesn't damage the loops and the result is fabulous. With my next Punchneedle rug I will try another technique, but later about it...

I didn't finish the back side, but applied non-fraying solution. The reason is I am trying to be as close to the scale as possible and think that any application to the back side of the punchneedle rug makes it out of the scale. What do you think?

I also came up with my own design for my next punchneedle rug in 1/12th scale and it is ready to be transfered on the fabric, but later about it, for now just a sneak peak of a pattern...

Monday, April 21, 2014

While I am working on the floor in the last room in Blue Moon Cottage - in between the sessions of cutting-sanding-gluing-sanding-finishing - I decided to make something else. That "something else" is a room box I finished over last weekend and put for sale.

The process of work on this room box was so fast and interesting that I forgot to take pictures, and the process is all the same: cutting, sanding, painting, gluing, decorating...

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Fast update on my dollhouse petit point firescreen in a quarter scale.

I finished petit pointing a design for a quarter scale firescreen.

It took me approx. 1 h and 20 min to finish it. There are total of 97 stitches, 8 colors and I used 112 count silk gauze. There was no sense to stitch background that's why I left it unfinished.

Honestly, I am not impressed with the result. You can hardly see all colors I used and even identify the design. Just to compare and see what I mean I decided to petit point a pillow in a quarter scale with the same result but on 60 count silk gauze. I am almost done with the pillow (working on the background) but already can see how 2 projects with the same design are absolutely different being stitched on different counts of silk gauze.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

A year ago I was certain I will never work in smaller than 1/12th scale. Now I am leaning more towards at least to try it. Many interesting kits in a half and quarter scale came on the market recently. It comes to the furniture and dollhouses as well.

I've never thought I would ever try to petit point for a quarter scale, but inquired recently this delicate laser cut firescreen in a quarter scale from Suzane Herget and decided to give it a try on... 112 count silk gauze. The diameter of the screen is only 0,5 cm or 6/32".

I was so intrigued to start working on it and designed a little flower chart that measures only 12 x 13 stitches but on 112 count silk gauze, and honestly to say, I have never worked on this count before. As you can see, I've started petit pointing mini flower already. I do it free hand without a hoop that let me save a piece of silk gauze. I do use superfine silk made in UK and a beading super thin and long needle.

It won't be long till I finish working on it because I am impatient to see how it looks like in a quarter scale.